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Perspective
11 March 2022
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Green hydrogen just got more pricing friendly

The impact of the war in Ukraine on gas prices may cut years off of the gestation originally predicted for the development of a global green hydrogen market – and with...

Perspective
04 March 2022
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Other

Proximo Weekly: DFI cooperation – a future casualty of war?

From the balance sheet to the boardroom, the implications for some DFIs and supranationals from Putin’s invasion of Ukraine are more than just indirect hits from...

Perspective
25 February 2022
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Oil & gas

Proximo Weekly: Will energy security accelerate transition?

Europe has had a wake-up call to energy security from President Putin’s invasion of Ukraine - a move that could and should spark the political will to radically...

Perspective
26 January 2022
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Power

A balancing act: Merchant risk and the energy transition

Gordon Stewart and Tom Jamieson, London-based partners at Bracewell, discuss the evolving market for providing balancing services to electricity grids with merchant...

Perspective
14 January 2022

Canal Sugar Company: On-lend to blend

The multi-currency financing for the Canal Sugar Project, a scheme that combines land reclamation for a farm roughly three times the size of Luxembourg with a beet...

News
13 January 2022
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Renewables

STOA and GE23 expand Los Guzmancito Wind Farm

Grupo Energetico 23 and STOA have announced the closing of STOA’s investment in Poseidon Energía Renovable, the company in charge of the development,...

Perspective
15 December 2021
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Transport

Allego: Plugging EV into project finance

Allego has pulled off a second EV charging project funding first and got better debt margins and tenor second time around. But don’t expect a rush of hungry project...

Perspective
10 December 2021

Proximo Weekly: A liquid diet

The $1.2 trillion US Infrastructure Bill still leaves a major chasm to bridge between government funding availability and demand. Two recent deals hint at where some of...

News
08 November 2021
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Oil & gas, Power, Renewables, Transport

Hunton Andrews Kurth hires Sean Conaty from Hogan Lovells

Hunton Andrews Kurth has hired project development and project finance attorney Sean Conaty as a partner in the firm's Tokyo office. He joins the firm's energy...

Perspective
05 November 2021

Proximo Weekly: COPing with the devil in the details

COP 26 felt like a watershed this week – at least in terms of cohesive global strategy. But there is still a vast amount of work to do at the granular regulatory level to...

News
05 November 2021
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Transport

Tiger Infra to build cargo terminal at ANC

Tiger Infrastructure Partners has announced the acquisition of a controlling interest in IC Alaska Airport, which has secured a 55-year lease with the State of Alaska at...

Perspective
28 October 2021

Proximo Weekly: A fair COP?

Green financing has vastly accelerated the pace of energy transition. But state funding mechanisms, commercial lending and institutional investment strategies need to...

Perspective
08 October 2021

Proximo Weekly: Is China losing its infra finance grip?

With a potential focus by China on domestic stimulus via infrastructure, a retreat from the levels of BRI lending seen pre-pandemic and increased Chinese banks lending...

Perspective
01 October 2021

Proximo Weekly: PFI handback – it could get messy

In the next decade 200-plus PFI contracts will end and the assets handed back to the state. It should be simple, but mistakes, lack of clarity and loopholes in early...

Perspective
24 September 2021
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Renewables

Proximo Weekly: A Chinese solar TEESSer

China's first international non-recourse financing in the solar sector - it's a big claim for a small $80 million deal. But TEESS could yet prove to be the first of many...

Perspective
10 September 2021
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Oil & gas, Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: An ECA-backed gauge of project demand

Proximo’s sister publication TXF has issued its H1 2021 Export Finance Report on ECA-backed volume. The results give a flavour of the impact a year of pandemic stasis...

Perspective
27 August 2021
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Power, Renewables

Proximo Weekly: Hydrogen blues

The timing could not have been worse for the UK government. Just over a week after the publication of new academic research on blue hydrogen that undermines previous...

Perspective
13 August 2021
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Transport

Proximo Weekly: Can South Africa deliver a revitalised PPP market?

Published this week, South Africa’s draft NIP 2050 contains a strong statement of PPP intent. But the ‘how’ is conspicuous by its absence.

Perspective
06 August 2021

Proximo Weekly: Turkey’s project funding problem solved?

New Turkish project bond legislation looks set to deliver at least some funding diversification for Turkish PPP projects. But the impact is unlikely to be as big as hoped...

Perspective
16 July 2021

Proximo Weekly: What price infra?

There is a lot of fund money chasing operational infrastructure assets. But with many assets still hurting from pandemic fallout, is it the right time to sell?